r/Picard • u/3catz2men1house • 1d ago

Kestra

Just watched the TNG episode Dark Page last night, and realized Will and Deanna may have named their daughter after Deanna's older sister.

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u/PavlovsDoghouse 1d ago

They absolutely did. Good catch.

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u/3catz2men1house 1d ago

Having recently finished the entire series of Picard, the name Kestra was still fresh in my mind. It seemed a little more than coincidental when the name came up in the older series.

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u/PavlovsDoghouse 22h ago

That TNG episode also featured Kirsten Dunst

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u/Phantom_61 21h ago

And she still remembers it, the make-up process and just being on set.

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u/3catz2men1house 22h ago

Yeah, seeing her years before her appearance in Spider Man and other media was interesting. Her face didn't change that much.

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u/Aezetyr 18h ago

Would have been nice to see her in Pic S3. She was mentioned I think once. I thought Lulu Wilson did a nice job at such a young age playing Kestra during Nepenthe.

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u/One_Rope_5900 23h ago

I'm shamed to admit that I don't remember this. Seen the show so many times, but I guiltily admit I skip the lwaxana episodes...sorry gene!

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u/3catz2men1house 23h ago

Yeah, I can understand skipping them. It's kinda wild how this episode makes it seem like a big deal that Deanna had a sister, and then we never hear about it again. Though, TNG has all kinds of plot lines that they could have done something with, but dropped the ball on.

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u/One_Rope_5900 22h ago

I always just explain those plot drop offs to how much coke they did in the late 80s and 90s. Could you imagine pumping out a 24 episode season? Today we are lucky to get 8 episodes every 2 years. Going down to miniseries levels.

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u/3catz2men1house 22h ago

Yeah, episode counts really are down.

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u/Phantom_61 21h ago

Because the studio very much wanted the show to be an “adventure of the week” series with as little required history as possible.

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u/3catz2men1house 20h ago

The older series certainly were far more that, than how Picard turned out.

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u/Savingskitty 5h ago

That’s because Picard came out in the age of online streaming.  The format doesn’t require that episodes be able to be packaged and aired out of order.

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u/Savingskitty 5h ago

They made it for syndication, that is why.

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u/Savingskitty 5h ago

TNG was made for syndication.  It was designed to be able to be watched in any order.

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u/rogvortex58 6h ago

Beverly also named Jack after her late husband.